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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!ieunet!Ireland.EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!not-for-mail From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees Date: 1 Aug 1996 17:09:57 +0100 Organization: EUnet Ireland Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4tqksl$n1m@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> References: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ezekiel.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thomas Schreiber (ts@infodirekt.de) said: : What is the best way to copy directory trees with preserving : access dates, permissions, links and so on? : I know about : cp -pr : tar cf - | (cd destdir; tar xf -) tar -cf - foo | (cd destdir; tar xpf -) works better. If you have GNU cp lying the place, 'cp -av' does the job nicely. You could also use some combination of dump and restore, but that only works for whole filesystems. Nick -- Nick Hilliard, EUnet Ireland - Phone: +353 1 6790832, Fax: +353 1 6708118